THEODORE WHEELER is a poet and fiction writer whose short story
"Your Raisins Are Just Dead Grapes" was selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of
Best New American Voices, edited by John Kulka of Yale University Press
and novelist Natalie Danford. It will be published by Harcourt/Harvest Books.
The story was selected by guest editor Mary Gaitskill and
nominated by Anne Greene, director of the Wesleyan Writers Conference
at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where Wheeler was a Joan Jakobson Scholarship
award-winner. He also is a recent winner of
Boulevard's Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers.
His story
"The Scythian Defense" appeared in the GSU Review (Fall 2006).
Another story, "Soldier in an Airport," appears in the debut issue of
Superstition Review (Spring 2008).
He is the Web Editor of Prairie Schooner and is at work on a short story collection and a novel.
He and his wife Nicole live with their daughter, Madeleine, in Omaha, and are
expecting their second child.